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No. 609,082. Patented Aug. l6, I898. W. C. COLLYER & W. F. BULLOCK.

COMBINED GUARD AND STEP FDR STREET CARS.

(Applicntion filed Doc. 8, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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ATENT- lVILLlAM O. COLLYER AND TVILLIAM F. BULLOCK, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED GUARD AND STEP FOR STREET-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,082, dated August16, 1898. Application filed December 3, 1897. Serial No. 660,579. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM C. GOLLYER and WILLIAM F. BULLooK, of Lynn,in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in a Combined Guard and Step forStreet-Oars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to street-cars in which there is an entranceat the side of the car and a step running longitudinally along the sideof the oar-as, for instance, in the ordinary open car havingtransversely-extending seats. 3

The invention has for its object to provide a combined guard-rail orgate and stepfor street-cars of this pattern; and it consists in thenovel features of construction and arrangement which we will now proceedto describe and claim, with the aid of the drawings accompanying andforming a part of this application.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of an open car provided with ourimprovement. Fig. 2 represents a detail side elevation with the parts inanother position. Fig; 3 represents a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, a designates the car-body, and b b designatea number of arms of equal length, pivoted at" their lower ends to thefloor-beam or frame of the car and at their upper ends to a guard-railor gate 0, which is adapted to swing on said arms in a vertical planefrom an obstructing position across the ends of the aisles between thecarseats cl d to a depressed or inoperative position at or below thelevel of the car-floor.

c is an end section or addition to the guardrail, pivoted to the mainrail and slotted to receive a stationary pin 0 When the rail 0 isdepressed, the'auXiliary piece 0 occupies the position shown by fulllines in Fig. 1, and when said rail is raised, as shown by dotted linesin Fig. 1, the piece 0 occupies a horizontal position across the end ofthe last aisle.

e e are links pivoted to the arms I) I) intermediate of the ends of thelatter and to a horizontal step f, extending longitudinally of the carand adapted to slide up and down in slotted end guides or brackets g g.The said brackets are provided at their lower ends with flanges g, whichsupport the ends of the step f when the latter is in its lowermostposition. Asecond step his located above the step f and is pivoted at hh to the brackets g. Arrangements are made for tilting up the rear edgeof the step h when the step f is raised, these arrangements consistingof rods 2', having a pivotal connection with the step h, and aslot-and-pin connection with the step f, the latter connection beingprovided because the step f has a greater range of motion than the rearedge of the step 7t.

It will readily be seen that when the guardrail 0 is depressed the lowerstep f is also depressed and the upper step his in a horizontalposition, giving convenient ingress and egress for passengers to andfromthe seats d on this side of the car; but when the guardrail 0 israised the step f is raised to an in convenient height above the streetand the step it is tilted to a sloping position. lPassengers' are thuseffectually prevented from getting on or 0d the car on this side. Inpractice the arrangement of guard-rail and step is provided on each sideof the car, so that when running access may be provided on one side ofthe car and prevented on. the other side for the sake of safety.

We do not wish to confine ourselves to the details of constructionherein described, as considerable variation in structure may be madewithout departing from the spirit of the invention.

We claim-- In a street-car having one or more side entrances, aguard-rail or gate adapted to occupy a raised or obstructing positionacross said entrances, and a depressed or unobstructing position, a stepconnected with said rail names to this specification, in the presence ofIO and adapted to be raised and depressed bodily two subscribingWitnesses, this 23d day of by the raising and depressing of the rail, al November, A. D. 1897. second step hinged to suitable supports, and 5means whereby the second'step is made to occupy a tilted or slopingposition when the rail is raised, and a horizontal position WhenWitnesses: said rail is depressed. O. F. BROWN, v In testimony whereofWe have signed our A. D, HARRISON.

